BASSOON

w/ Vivian Sisters

“The power trio is one of Brooklyn’s heaviest and most challenging, bringing to mind a mixture of Melvins-style avant-sludge and daredevil ’70s fusion.” – Time Out NY

BASSOON's crushing instru-metal onslaught has been called "the Melvins colliding with Melvin Sparks" and hailed as "Brooklyn’s heaviest and most challenging" trio, delivering hand-hammered stoner-metal-fusion chamber odysseys since 2008. Their "eviscerating eponymous debut" of 2012, dubbed "an unholy union of high-brow fusion and low-end sludge". Originally the brainchild of Stuart Popejoy and Steve Tanner during Stuart’s collaboration with Harvey Milk, heavy bass/keyboard riffs over a drum machine gave way to the current power trio with guitarist Sean Moran and drummer John Mettam. The group heads Northeast in Spring 2017 for a brief tour before entering the studio to cut a second record.

"For fans of intelligent metal... Popejoy turned the concept into a full-fledged vision with the help of guitarist Sean Moran and drummer John Mettam with this eviscerating eponymous debut (released August 2), with nine compositions that sound like the Melvins colliding with Melvin Sparks in an unholy union of high-brow fusion and low-end sludge. Call it ‘Bash and Bop’ with all apologies to Tommy Stinson." -- Dirty Impound

The Vivian Sisters

The Vivian Sisters at their core are uncompromising free improvisers crossing paths with the strange outsider musical subcultures also inhabited by the likes of the Shaggs, Captain Beefheart, and Wesley Willis. Genre fluid virtuosity and stochastic rhythms are matched with naïve séance inspired vocals and melodies. This concert will mark the first on stage reunion of The Vivian Sisters 25 years after the release of their premiere record. They are now working on a follow up album. With special guest Vanessa Saft.

Laura Cromwell is an NYC + Maine drummer with a storied past. She performed Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival in the Helen Wiggin drum chair for the Shaggs reunion (and was dubbed “Helen Junior” by none other than Dot and Betty themselves), plays in the Dot Wiggin Band, Bi Tyrant and Locus Delicti.

Jamie Saft is an internationally reknown keyboardist, producer, and composer from New York. His stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, HR, The B-52’s, John Zorn, John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Donovan, Antony and the Johnsons, and Iggy Pop. Saft leads the New Zion Trio, Jamie Saft Trio, and Jamie Saft Quartet. Saft has collaborated with legends of music including Wadada Leo Smith, Roswell Rudd, Marshall Allen, Danny Ray Thompson, Dave Liebman, Joe Morris, Hamid Drake, Bobby Previte, Steve Swallow, Darryl Jenifer, and Cyro Baptista.

$15 advance | $20 day-of

*fees not included ($2 facility fee per ticket + cc processing fees)